It’s an intriguing angle, what with the Widow losing allies left and right, and I’m sure it’ll somehow culminate in her coming out on top because frankly, could Into the Badlands really exist without Emily Beecham? The answer, needless to say, is no, but if the Pilgrim and his army of gifted zealots are going to function as the fourth season’s antagonists, I’d rather we got a bit of juicy info about what it is they’re actually up to. I guess we’ll see.īesides, the Widow has her hands full forming tentative alliances with the Pilgrim and the cult of Azra, which got a fairly concise explanation this week. The second reason is that this hopefully sets up Nathaniel as a kind of hero figure with no real reason to continue serving the Widow and with his lusty feelings for Lydia not entirely buttoned down, the speedy resolution of his arc with Sunny puts him in a potentially interesting spot. But despite being a recurring motif, I always feel like it works for Into the Badlands to tether its present to its past if we’re supposed to buy Sunny as a tortured antihero who prospered under a violent and tyrannical regime, might as well have him doing some violent and tyrannical stuff.

Yes, it turned out little Sunny was the one who blinded them in the first place, for what I found to be quite nebulous reasons. Those are big stakes, and if the acting in this episode doesn’t entirely sell them as such, I at least appreciated the effort to tie the blindness of the blind cannibal assassins back to Sunny’s dubious life as a Clipper – or, in this case, a Clipper-in-training. Well, not if you’re one of the characters, I suppose, but if you’re me things look good.Īnyway, Sunny and Bajie find themselves in the clutches of the eponymous villains, who nab young Henry.

It was a typically pacey episode with some superbly-choreographed action, but it also abided by the third season’s new rule of deploying a healthy amount of actual character development and philosophical pondering, too. Yes, “Blind Cannibal Assassins” was, believe it or not, about blind cannibal assassins. Into the Badlands has always had a habit of giving its episodes long and elaborate titles, but rarely as they as accurate as this week’s.

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In another solid episode of Into the Badlands, “Blind Cannibal Assassins” delivered the usual helpings of superb action with the added bonus of more ambitious worldbuilding and plotting than the show has indulged in before.

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